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Profiling Beta for Python and Node.js

A couple months ago, we launched Profiling in alpha for users on Python and Node.js SDKs — today, we’re moving Profiling for Python and Node.js to beta. Profiling is free to use while in beta — more updates to come when we near GA. Profiling is a critical tool for helping catch performance bottlenecks in your code. Sentry’s profiler gets you down to the exact file/line number in your code that is causing a slow-running query.

Democratizing Machine Data & Logs: How Infor saves millions by leveraging Sumo Logic's data-tiering

Infor developed a decentralized governance model for managing the vast Sumo landscape. A landscape with thousands of users, tens of thousands of Collectors, petabytes of log ingestion. By democratizing log management, we implemented a decentralized governance model for our Sumo account. Consequently,, we succeeded in doubling our log ingestion year-over-year, while reducing our log ingestion cost by more than 50%.

Data Gravity in Cloud Networks: Achieving Escape Velocity

In an ideal world, organizations can establish a single, citadel-like data center that accumulates data and hosts their applications and all associated services, all while enjoying a customer base that is also geographically close. As this data grows in mass and gravity, it’s okay because all the new services, applications, and customers will continue to be just as close to the data. This is the “have your cake and eat it too” scenario for a scaling business’s IT.

How Security Engineers Use Observability Pipelines

In data management, numerous roles rely on and regularly use telemetry data. The security engineer is one of these roles. Security engineers are the vigilant sentries, working diligently to identify and address vulnerabilities in the software applications and systems we use and enjoy today. Whether it’s by building an entirely new system or applying current best practices to enhance an existing one, security engineers ensure that your systems and data are always protected.

Prometheus Alertmanager best practices

Have you ever fallen asleep to the sounds of your on-call team in a Zoom call? If you’ve had the misfortune to sympathize with this experience, you likely understand the problem of Alert Fatigue firsthand. During an active incident, it can be exhausting to tease the upstream root cause from downstream noise while you’re context switching between your terminal and your alerts. This is where Alertmanager comes in, providing a way to mitigate each of the problems related to Alert Fatigue.

An Introduction to Application Monitoring

Users prefer an application that runs smoothly and without bugs to one that may have an appealing UI and shiny new features but comes with issues. Application monitoring is critical to the health of your application. With application monitoring, you can stay on top of any errors and ensure your application performs as it should. In this article, we'll cover: Let’s dive straight in!

What's new in Avantra 23.1

It only feels like yesterday that I was writing about the new features in Avantra 23.0, but today I’m pleased to announce that Avantra 23.1, our first feature update of Avantra 23, is ready for download. We’ve been working on a number of different areas that I’ll try to summarize here, but I apologize for the length of this post! For those who want a complete list of changes, check out our public release notes.